Because I'm no longer a pop star 24 hours a day, I'm no longer bogged down by the stupid stuff that used to cripple me. I don't bruise easily any more.
‐‐ Robbie Williams
Because I'm not doing it for the money, I'm doing it because I feel like that story needs to be told or clarified, or something needs to be shown about that.
‐‐ Julian Schnabel
Because I'm not perfect looking, I get to play better roles.
‐‐ Juliette Lewis
Because I'm not the same today as I was in '58, or '59 or even '71.
‐‐ Link Wray
Because I'm not trying to throw people any curves.
‐‐ Christy Romano
Because I'm on the runway with some of the best models in the industry.
‐‐ Heidi Klum
Because I'm one of five people in Los Angeles who doesn't drive, I walk a lot.
‐‐ Allison Anders
Because I'm pretty, everybody thinks I'm stupid. But it is like a mask, and you have to break the mask to show that there is something else behind it. You have to show who you are to make the others come to discover you.
‐‐ Monica Bellucci
Because I'm pushing my body so hard already, the last thing I want to do is have music that's really too strong, in my head.
‐‐ Michelle Kwan
Because I'm seen on 'Oz', a lot of the urban cats in the city are like, 'Yo, I thought you'd be rolling in a Mercedes?' And I'm just like, 'Not at all!' This is cable money. There is a big difference between that and a network. But still I can't complain. It's better than doing a 9 to 5 any day.
‐‐ Kirk Acevedo
Because I'm shooting 'The New Normal' and 'Real Housewives of Atlanta' at the same time, so my schedule is double. I leave one show and go and shoot the other. The cameras are with me for, like, every day of my life. So I'm extremely tired.
‐‐ NeNe Leakes
Because I'm short and slim, I can identify with somebody who's an unlikely fit for something and desperately wants to be part of it.
‐‐ Daniel Radcliffe
Because I'm shy and a bit quiet, I think people assume I'm an elegant person.
‐‐ Jack Jones
Because I'm small, I've been called things from 'Happy Feet' to 'Little Face.'
‐‐ Kevin Hart
Because I'm so big, you have to look at me. I think of myself as a monument. But sometimes I like to feel small.
‐‐ Shaquille O'Neal
Because I'm so busy and because I think of myself as a painter, I desperately guard the time that I have to paint. And sometimes I'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep.
‐‐ Joni Mitchell
Because I'm so hands on here at work and always looking at fabrics you have to be mobile and as comfortable as possible.
‐‐ Narciso Rodriguez
Because I'm so known as a meat-chef, when I talk about Meatless Monday some people look at me like I've lost my mind. I'm like, look, I'm not saying beef and pork is bad, I love it and I eat it six days a week.
‐‐ Michael Symon
Because I'm so much in the spotlight, people lose sight of why I'm in the industry. In fact, I'm doing all this because I love to act. I love to perform, to sing.
‐‐ Lindsay Lohan
Because I'm so tall, clothes look different on me than they do on others.
‐‐ Karlie Kloss
Because I'm such a creative person, and I've always got my nose in a book, I suppose it was only a matter of time before non-fiction turned into fiction again. But I never consciously set out to become a writer and I never thought I'd be doing the things I'm doing today.
‐‐ Paul Kane
Because I'm such a tomboy, I hate showing off my body.
‐‐ Brooklyn Decker
Because I'm the author of my screenplays I know what I'm looking for. It's true that I can be stubborn in demanding that I get what I want, but it's also a question of working with patience and love.
‐‐ Michael Haneke
Because I'm very petite, I try not to wear things that have a heavy pattern because I feel like they overtake you.
‐‐ Emma Roberts
Because I never plan anything out ahead of time, I'm always in the process of learning about my characters. Without a biographical sketch to guide me, I discover things about my heroines as the stories unfold. Only in 'Body Double' did I discover that Maura's mother was a serial killer.
‐‐ Tess Gerritsen
Because I never set out to be an actress, I always feel so lucky and grateful. There are so many people who are really desperate to be stars, and it was completely the opposite for me - I fell into it.
‐‐ Sophia Myles
Because I never thought the Lord would treat me any different from any other honest man or that I had an official position that compelled the Lord to help me in any other way than He would help any other man.
‐‐ John Harvey Kellogg
Because I once became so distraught watching the film 'Watership Down,' my parents were happier to let me watch action adventures featuring humans and warriors rather than cute animals.
‐‐ Rhianna Pratchett
Because I practice often with my children at home.
‐‐ Andrea Bocelli
Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
‐‐ Elie Wiesel
'Because I said so!' They are the most underrated four words.
‐‐ Steve Schirripa
Because I saw my parents relaxing in armchairs and reading and liking it, I thought it was a peaceful grown-up thing to do, and I still think that.
‐‐ Maeve Binchy
Because I see my mum and dad as such amazing friends, I think I'll be a really good dad.
‐‐ Gareth Gates
Because I see my own boys growing, and I see other children growing and I just have such a connection.
‐‐ Sam Trammell
Because I select my players from a feeling that comes to me when I am with them, a certain sympathy you might call it, or a vibration that exists between us that convinces me they are right.
‐‐ Erich von Stroheim
Because I sleep with him he asked me to audition, you know?
‐‐ Helena Bonham Carter
Because I spend so much time traveling, I tend to do most of my reading on the same iPad on which I write. For me, it's words, not paper, that matter most in the end. This practice has had the additional benefit of greatly reducing the time I spend storming through the house, defaming the mysterious forces who 'hid my book.'
‐‐ Scott Turow
Because I spent many years during my previous life as an academic researching game theory, some commentators rushed to presume that as Greece's new finance minister, I was busily devising bluffs, stratagems and outside options, struggling to improve upon a weak hand. Nothing could be further from the truth.
‐‐ Yanis Varoufakis
Because I take care of my body, it doesn't look like the body of a woman of my years.
‐‐ Gloria Swanson
Because I teach and write about depression and bipolar illness, I am often asked what is the most important factor in treating bipolar disorder. My answer is competence. Empathy is important, but competence is essential.
‐‐ Kay Redfield Jamison
Because I tend to kind of hide under the sheets when it comes to reality television. I've seen probably one episode of maybe five different shows, and that's about it.
‐‐ Diane Lane
Because I think every child star suffers through this period because you're not the cute and charming child that you were. You start to grow, and they want to keep you little forever.
‐‐ Michael Jackson
Because I think in order to get famous you have to be known for something. Like 'You're the romantic comedy girl' or 'You're the Oscar-winning whatever girl.'
‐‐ Rachel Weisz
Because I trained in theater, I always leave a film shoot feeling like I haven't done anything, like I just sat in front of the camera and whispered, essentially.
‐‐ Hayley Atwell
Because I travel so much, I bring my workout clothes and shoes wherever I go. That way I can always do some exercise.
‐‐ Gail Simmons
Because I tried to everything possible to become the best player in the world? Do I believe steroids and growth hormones helped me achieve that? Yes. Were there a lot of other players doing it that I had to compete against? Yes.
‐‐ Jose Canseco
Because I used to go and watch him rehearsing for pantomime, and I have adopted some of those priciples, like try to be on time, learn your script, how he approach it, etc.
‐‐ Dennis Brown
Because I used to play a lot of sport, I've always been in decent enough shape. When I used to get asked to do a bit of body work before a photo shoot I'd lie and say, 'Yeah, I'm going to the gym.' I literally never did anything.
‐‐ Jamie Dornan
Because I've a track record of talking about books I never write, in Australia they think I'm about to write a book about Jane Austen. Something I said at some festival.
‐‐ Kate Atkinson